Swartz was the author of the “Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto,” which called for information to be freely available and not “locked up by a handful of corporations” behind copyright-enforced paywalls. He was accused of hacking MIT’s network — to which he had authorised access — so that it bulk-downloaded 4 million articles from JSTOR, the academic journal archive, in January 2011. Swartz had previously used a free access terminal in a federal courthouse to download 20 million pages of documents from PACER, the federal judiciary ‘s database of court records.

They also describe the searches that officers made of Swartz’s home and office, and the property they took from Swartz. Most of the pages are procedural in nature, in that they deal with the docketing of the cases against Swartz and custody of the evidence seized from his home.

Here are a few highlights:

When the FBI searched Swartz’s home, he asked them, “What took you so long … why didn’t you do this earlier?”

The most interesting part is that which describes the feds interviewing one of Swartz’s close friends in May 2011, who told them about the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto and its “human rights” consequences: